This week, the American Psychological Association proved once again that it is a political body rather than a scientific one. This isn’t the first time a major mental health organization has favored politics over science — in 2013, the American Psychiatric Association famously reclassified “gender identity disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, calling it “gender dysphoria” and then explaining that living with the delusion that you are a member of the opposite sex is not actually a mental disorder at all. That ruling was based on zero scientific evidence — much like the original DSM-5 classification of pedophilia as a “sexual orientation” before it was renamed “pedophilic disorder” under public pressure.

The latest example of the American Psychological Association’s political hackery concerns the topic of “traditional masculinity.” In the APA journal, it announced that it had released new guidelines to “help psychologists work with men and boys.” Those guidelines suggest that “40 years of research” show that “traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.” The APA explains that “traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful. Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors.”

Never mind that traditional masculinity — a masculinity geared toward channeling masculine instincts of building and protecting, rather than tearing down — built Western civilization and protected it from the brutalities of other civilizational forces. Never mind that traditional masculinity protected femininity and elevated women to equal status in public policy. Traditional masculinity is actually just men sitting around and eating burgers while grunting at one another about football, all the while crying on the inside because they have been prohibited by society from showing their feelings.

And it’s worse than that. According to the APA, traditional masculinity bumps up “against issues of race, class and sexuality,” maximizing both interior and exterior conflict. Dr. Ryon McDermott, a psychologist from the University of South Alabama who helped draft the new APA guidelines, suggested that gender is “no longer just this male-female binary.” Rather, gender is a mere social construct that can be destroyed without consequence. Here’s the APA making the extraordinarily dishonest statement that gender differences aren’t biological at all , in contravention of all known social science research: “Indeed, when researchers strip away stereotypes and expectations, there isn’t much difference in the basic behaviors of men and women.”

Destroy masculinity in order to destroy discrimination and depression. Feminize men, and indoctrinate boys.

In order to reach this conclusion, the APA has to define traditional masculinity in the narrowest, most negative terms possible — and then other those who disagree as part of the patriarchy. But as a political body, the APA has little problem doing this.

All of this is not only nonsense; it’s wildly counterproductive nonsense. Buried beneath the reams of nonsense in the APA report is this rather telling gem: “It’s also important to encourage pro-social aspects of masculinity. … In certain circumstances, traits like stoicism and self-sacrifice can be absolutely crucial.” But we must never suggest that such traits ought to be included as part of a “traditional masculinity,” because that would make some people feel excluded.

Here’s the truth: Men are looking for meaning in a world that tells them they are perpetuators of discrimination and rape culture; that they are beneficiaries of an overarching, nasty patriarchy; that they are, at best, disposable partners to women, rather than protectors of them. Giving men purpose requires us to give them purpose as men , not merely as genderless beings. There’s a lot to be said for the idea that our culture has ignored the necessity for men to become gentlemen. But that’s a result of a left-wing culture that denigrates men, not a traditional masculinity built on the idea that men were born to defend, protect and build.

One thing is certainly true, though: The APA has destroyed itself on the shoals of politics. And there’s no reason for honest-thinking people to take its anti-scientific pronouncements seriously simply because it masquerades as scientists while ignoring facts in favor of political correctness.

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The gay genital maniac cult is doing what it has always done which is to promote its unnatural sex which is addictive and makes people crazy…which is why homosexuality and all its genital obsessions have been condemned by every culture for thousands of years. It is contagious, and as Shakespeare noted, “Unnatural deeds do have unnatural troubles….To their deaf pillows will they discharge their secrets….More need they the Divine than the physician.” The sickest patients have taken over the American Psychological Association.

That APA started this “queerness” back in the 70’s when after classifying homosexuality as a “mental illness” for decades, they removed it as an a medical or mental issue. No scientific studies were made and no debates amongst peers. Political correctness rules their world, like it does those “scientists” that push the “climate change” agenda without even attempting to listen to an opposing argument to their “chiseled in stone” findings.

The nuts at the APA are willing to throw literally thousands of years of men being men away so that they can be politically relevant in a mixed up liberal world. Fine for them. Those of us with any intelligence know that a man being manly isn’t a bad thing and is what has made this world go since the beginning of time.

IMO this is just more emasculation of men. ITS why in so many marriages i see, Men almost allow themselves to be walked all over by their wives. Its why so many men LET their needs/wants, get put Second, over wants/desires of women. They’ve been wimpified.

Case and point. Was listening to talk radio last night, while doing some typing. One older lady was on about her youngest nephew. He’s been in a wheel chair for 9 years going on, but happily married for 8. YET this is now the 3rd time they’ve moved because WIFEY just ‘wanted to move’, and LIKE IN THE 2 prior times, HIS NEEDS (having a wheel chair friendly one story house), got nixed by his wife’s desires to live in a 3 story colonial house..
OR a neighbor of hers, who likewise has moved for work 5 times in 13 years, ALL because of his wife, YET EVERY TIME, its been HER dictating where they live/what house they get. His wants/needs, are meaningless… ALL because the men have been badgered/heckled into giving into the wives. ALWAYS.

This group of psychologically-stunted eunuchs are way behind the progressive curve. The schools and Hollyweird have been promoting this propaganda for years. Recently, the UK military rolled out their new ‘millennial sign-up’ program looking for a ‘Few Good Whatevers’.

For me, I want men to be MEN. And women to be women. I want each to be what they are. I happen to like men who protect and treat women special. We each have a role or place and this down on men in an effort to turn them into wimpy things that hid behind a woman’s skirts is just too much for me. They are trying to remold the roles. Why? Being who we are is just a fine tuned ying yang, together, as partners, we are whole and equal.

I think the point is to make people believe they don’t have partners, just fellow travelers with no commitment to one another. It’s a lot easier to control people who think they are alone than those who have another to tell them they aren’t crazy to resist.

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4:00 pm January 12, 2019 at 4:00 pm

Maybe that is why a lot of men are participating in the “Going it alone” movement..

Men are marvelous! They do not need to be molded into a confused new gender!!We should applaud male attributes. They are only dangerous to the latest political push that girls can be
boys etc. There are lots of cherished differences and we should embrace them! Our cells say male
or female. Re labeling is a serious mistake. No one should try to manipulate male traits. The APA
is a group of unscientific pompous liberals!

It is easy to guess where did it come from (hint: from Soviet Union and Russia with a wave of post-1970 immigration from there). Remember that most of Soviet scientific community considered superiority of their “scientific” socialism over free-market Western capitalism a “settled science”. Also, Lysenko’s “scientific” revelation how to increase agricultural productivity that lead to starvation. And so on.

Also, APA treats disapproval of Islam and its barbaric origins (the name of the land where Islam begun was Barbaria) and methods (like beheading the “enemies” of Islam and its organizations) among Christians and Westerners as a harmful psychological dysfunction that needs to be treated (they call it “Islamophobia”) while it is just plain common sense.

The only way it could be “harmful” is by redefining the word “harmful”. Politicians are doing this gig and so are liberal activist judges. Harmful to who? Those educated idiots at the APA who are trying to change things against human nature and make a name for themselves? “Gender fluid”? I don’t think so, gender dysphoria—a recognized psychological illness. Go back to elementary school APA. You need to start all over!

These days, I am expected to apologize for being White; but I won’t.
I am expected to apologize for being straight. Instead, I am proud to be.
Now I am to apologize for being male. “I was born this way,” thank God.

None of this means I hate non-whites or females.
I admit that gays disgust me but I “live and let live.”

The liberals create all this strive and division by constantly making everything a wedge issue. Then they have the audacity to claim conservatives are the ones causing trouble.

Do I have this right? The morons at the APA – oh, wait, you can’t call morons morons anymore. You should call them “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” – these AOCs at the APA say that a man cannot be a man. If he is not a whiney, crybaby, limp-wristed pu55y then he is psychologically maladjusted. Do I have this right?

This kind of junk science is why we have the term psychobabble. The APA lost all credibility & became laughingstock when they contradicted indisputable biological science known from beginning of time to declare that gender was a choice / preference.

The APA fools want us to believe it is perfectly “normal” for people to undergo govt authorized physical mutilation of their body & a lifetime of drugs to try to change their biological gender to be whatever they choose.

The APA should get back to me when there is any psychiatrist willing to put their money or life on the line to guarantee that they can cure any particular mental illness at all. Until then I have no interest in any of their mumbo-jumbo nonsense.

Old joke: If you lock a psychiatrist in a room for a month with someone who thinks he’s Napoleon, when they come out will you have two people who think they are psychiatrists or two people who think they are Napoleon.

The APA has gotten away from their field of PSYCHO-SCIENCE and submitted to the political aspects of PSYCHO-BABBLE. They have diminished their field of Psychology when abnormal behaviors, especially sexual abnormal behaviors are not treated but accepted as normal. Sexual dysfunctions leads to SUICIDE and thinking that men, born with XY chromosomes and has the physical characteristics that all males share should be ACCEPTED into thinking they are females is MALPRACTICE. They have literally made that field of medicine into BALDERDASH.

And Bear in mind these are the same confused secular Psyciatrists who Judges listen to in court for a reason to rehabilitate rather than PUNISH the un-rehabilitatible recidivist hard core self-chosen criminal lifestyle criminals on the streets who now reflect the criminal lawbreaking mindsets of the Democrat secular socialists of license in the disguise of liberty, where blank check forgiveness and non-judgementalism replaces good old American Justice where Judges now are given permission by psychologists to play God and dispense their own justice, not those written in our Constitution or law books voted in place by THE PEOPLE. Psychology is the LEAST reliable science when it comes to reproducible results. In spite of Jefferson’s Half truth, Not all men are CREATED equal, but each Human being is created equally SPECIAL. A little it of psychology is said to be dangerous when imparting motives into individuals. A lot of Psychology is lethal to governments when embraced as reproducible facts in courts.

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